kpsewhich(1)

NAME

   kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea

SYNOPSIS

   kpsewhich [options] [filenames]

DESCRIPTION

   This  manual  page  is  not  meant  to  be  exhaustive.   The  complete
   documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file  or
   manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

   kpsewhich  is  used  as  a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library
   that can be used to examine variables and find files.  When the -format
   option  is  not  given, the search path used when looking for a file is
   inferred from the name given, by looking for a known extension.  If  no
   known extension is found, the search path for TeX source files is used.

OPTIONS

   kpsewhich accepts the following options:

   -debug num
          Set debugging flags.

   -D num Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer,
          is typically 600.

   -dpi num
          As -D.

   -engine string
          Set $engine in the environment, which is  used  in  some  search
          paths.

   -expand-braces string
          Print variable and brace expansion of string.

   -expand-path string
          Print complete path expansion of string.

   -expand-var string
          Print variable expansion of string.

   -format name
          Use  file  type  name.   See the info manual for a list of valid
          names, or use the -help option to print the list.

   -help  Print help message and exit.

   -interactive
          Ask for additional filenames to look up.

   -mktex fmt
          enable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

   -mode string
          Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.

   -must-exist
          Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.

   -no-mktex fmt
          disable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

   -path string
          Search in the path string.

   -progname string
          Set program name to string.

   -show-path name
          Output search path for file type name.  See the info manual  for
          a  list  of  valid  names,  or use the -help option to print the
          list.

   -var-value variable
          Print the expansion of variable.

   -version
          Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

   mktexlsr(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1).

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